Ep. 929 - Tom Hanks and Joe Biden Think We’re Stupid SOBs
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America is stronger than it was a year ago, and Joe Biden's America is no longer the land of the brave. Michael Knowles explains why, and why we should all be grateful that we are stronger than ever.
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The economy is in the gutter. Gas is through the roof. The store shelves are empty.
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Violent crime is skyrocketing. Our money is rapidly losing value. We're prohibited from
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participating in much of society without injecting ourselves with an experimental drug. And even
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when we do inject ourselves with that experimental drug, much of our country remains closed,
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all on Joe Biden's watch, most of it at his direction. Which is why the president,
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who has an anvil of an approval rating at the moment, has enlisted one of America's most
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likable celebrities to convince the country that everything is going great.
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If only we're brave enough, brave enough to live through two of the most difficult years many of
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us can remember. Brave enough to pull ourselves up again and again. America is the home of the
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brave. It's why we keep getting up, no matter how many times we get knocked down. Like with our
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economy, it isn't all the way back, but it's getting stronger. We may be entering year three
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of a pandemic none of us wanted or expected. We are stronger than we were a year ago today.
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We're bringing on new drivers. We're expanding. The fear that was there, it's going away.
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Business is booming. We're strong. We are courageous. We are resilient. We are America,
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land of the brave. I've long said it's never been a good bet to bet against America.
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And that's more true today than ever. Forget for a moment how pathetic it is that the president
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needs to enlist Woody from Toy Story to make people like him. Did you notice the subtle
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transformation of language? He said, Tom Hanks said that America is the land of the brave.
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That's not the line. Traditionally, we say that America is the land of the free
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and the home of the brave. But we can't say that anymore because in Biden's America,
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the first part is no longer true. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Joseph Campes, who says,
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I'm glad we agree kids are resilient. Now we can all stop worrying that they'll get the sniffles,
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you know, because they're so resilient. Great point. Great point. When the liberals like New
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York's Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul say, hey, don't worry about us masking up kids constantly and
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forcing them to take this experimental drug and kicking them out of schools and taking them away
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from their friends and family for two years and counting. Don't worry. Kids are resilient. You say,
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to say that the decision to change Land of the Free and Home of the Brave to simply Land of the Brave
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was intentional. When you are talking about any television commercial, first of all, but certainly
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when you're talking about a political television commercial, certainly when you're talking about one
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that involves the President of the United States, every single word, every single syllable is
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intentional. And the reason that you don't hear anything about freedom in that commercial is
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because it would be preposterous. It's not even that Joe Biden and Tom Hanks wouldn't want to be
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able to claim that we are more free today than ever. It would just be laughable. It would totally take you
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out of the commercial because we look around and we say, we're not free at all. Some of our most basic
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rights that we previously had have been taken away from us and remain in the hands of the Dr. Fauci's
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of the world. We're talking about personal freedoms. We're talking about political freedoms,
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right? Not only that we can't go run our businesses, not only that we can't walk into a restaurant now in
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many places without showing our medical history, but our political freedoms too. We are not even
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entitled to act through our legislatures very often because when our senators, for instance, go out
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and they say, we disapprove of this Joe Biden OSHA mandate. Well, Dr. Fauci says, who cares? And the
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head of OSHA says, who cares? And the bureaucrats say, who cares? And then we've got to rely on the Supreme
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Court to hopefully overturn some of them, but not all of them. We are less free. And if you haven't
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learned by now that the left uses the manipulation of language as its primary means of changing the
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culture, I can't help you. I can't help you. We've had over half a century of political correctness,
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wokeness. That's what they're doing. And it's a terrifying, subtle admission from Biden that we are,
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in fact, less free. Now that's Biden's approach to dealing with his failed policies is just to
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pretend that everything is good, to pretend that you're an idiot, to pretend that you don't have
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eyes, that you can't see what's going on, to get America's famously most likable celebrity to go out
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and say, no, it's really good. The economy is really good. You're doing great. Everyone's happy.
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Be happy. Be happy. That's the Biden approach, the complete denial of reality. Gavin Newsom in California
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has taken the opposite approach to deal with his failed policies. California is falling apart.
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My old city of Los Angeles is really falling apart. You've got crime through the roof. You got
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stores rather boarded up, buildings boarded up. You've got now railroads, railway stations that are
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getting robbed and looted every single night by criminals that the city and the state do nothing
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about. When you go to downtown, when you go to Skid Row, it is not just like a third world country.
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It's much worse than a third world country. And that's exactly the point that Gavin Newsom
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Let me thank everybody behind me. But as Toke said, let me in particular thank all the men
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and women in orange and yellow for their outstanding work and for moving quickly. I mean, just less than 48
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hours ago, we said we're coming down. Let's set this thing up. We had all the lawyers say, well,
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hold on. It's not your property. If you get injured, I mean, all every conceivable thing that makes you
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frustrated and crazy about government bureaucracy was at play. But everybody worked together. They worked
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through those issues. We got this memorandum of understanding and we created a new framework of
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understanding about our mutual responsibility to address what the hell is going on here.
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And I say that with emphasis. I see what you see. I see what you've been covering. I see what
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everybody's seen and asking myself, what the hell is going on? I mean, it looked like a third world
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country, these images, the drone images that were on the nightly news day in and day out. Some networks
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weaponizing them for their own political agenda and others just reporting the damn news fairly
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and appropriately. What the hell's going on here in California? What, who the hell's the governor in
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this place? What the hell kind of policies have you guys been, oh, me, it's me. I'm, oh, it's all my
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policies. Oh, whoops. But yeah, someone should vote that guy out. That me, that Gavin Newsom. It's
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like a third world country here. The only reason I disagree with Gavin Newsom's assessment is that
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it's not like a third world country. It is significantly worse than a third world country.
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There are some poor countries that get along basically just fine and they've got decent
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cohesion and they don't have crime that's skyrocketing through the roof. LA is much worse
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than that. There's very little cohesion. The rule of law is collapsing. And frankly, even the DAs,
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even the prosecutors are, are not enforcing the law. And then you've got crime everywhere and people
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living in filth. And, and it's, it's even worse when it's in a rich place, a really rich city,
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a really rich state. One of the largest economies in the world is just California.
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Says, what the hell's going on? It is Newsom's fault. It's not entirely Newsom's fault,
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but it's partially Newsom's fault. And it's certainly the part, fault of his party and the
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Democrat mayor, mayors and the Democrat prosecutors and the Democrat state representatives.
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And that, that's been going on for a long time. And so what Newsom's trying to do is evade
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responsibility. He says, there's no way that I'm going to be able to convince Angelinos and other
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Californians to look at Skid Row, to look at the railroad yards and, and tell them everything's
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tickety boo. So that, because that's not going to work, I'm just going to come out on the other
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side and I'm just going to start yelling about it. The thing I find most interesting about this story
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though, is that what Gavin Newsom has done here is, is exactly what Donald Trump did with regard to
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immigration that got him in so much trouble. Do you, do you remember, I know it was way, way back,
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few years ago, Donald Trump said, why are we, why do we have these virtually open borders with
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excrement whole countries? Said these are S-H-I-T whole countries. And he, they said, how dare you
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say that? How dare you disparage these countries and say that they're filthy and, and ridden with
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crime? And then Gavin Newsom just did exactly the same thing. He said, this rail yard is filthy.
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It's ridden with crime. It's just like a third world country. They said exactly the same thing.
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And it's not the only, Democrats question the results of elections. They've been doing it for
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decades now. That's totally fine. That's actually good. That's a defense of democracy. Donald Trump
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questions the result of the strangest election in our history. Certainly the strangest one in recent
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history. That's terrible. That's a threat to democracy. And you especially see it with the rhetoric.
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respectful, responsible adult in the room. Nice guy. The return to normal. Was just asked a totally
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fair question about immigration by Peter Ducey, member of the White House press pool.
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And Joe Biden got caught on microphone calling him a very naughty name.
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That's a great asset. More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.
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More inflation. You're going to ask me about more inflation? You dirty, rotten journalist. You
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scum of the earth. You're slime. You're the enemy of the people. How dare you ask me a totally fair
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question? You stupid son of a gun. He didn't say son of a gun. He was nastier than that.
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First takeaway, Joe Biden is a mean and nasty and small man. And he always has been. And the idea that
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he's this nice warm guy who licks ice cream cones and pats little kids on the head is a media
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contrivance. He's a jerk. He's a mean, nasty, shallow jerk. Don't forget what he did to corn
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pop. Poor corn pop over there at the Delaware swimming pool. And Joe Biden was really mean and
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nasty to him. And he's, and he's been mean and nasty for his whole career. He was willing to let
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Clarence Thomas be smeared, dragged through the mud on bogus charges, a high tech lynching. He was happy
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to do it until Clarence Thomas acknowledged that, called him out on that. At his hearing,
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finally, Joe Biden relented. Joe Biden, who said that Mitt Romney wants to put black people back
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in chains. Joe Biden, who a petulant, stupid, uneducated man at a presidential debate interjecting
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whenever Donald Trump would make a point, say, you're racist. You're racist. You're, you're,
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you're, you're mean, you're racist. Racism is the worst thing you can call somebody in the
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country. Racist. He keeps doing it. Smeared a 17 year old kid, Kyle Rittenhouse in a presidential
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campaign ad said he was, said he was a racist because it's the worst thing that you can call
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somebody in America today. Launched his presidential campaign on the lie that Donald Trump called neo
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Nazis fine people at Charlottesville. He's just a, he's just a dirty, rotten, nasty, ugly man. I don't,
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I don't know how else to put it. And he says this sort of thing about Peter Doocy. Now I like Peter
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Doocy, but journalists can take it. I don't, I don't mind it when politicians go a little hard
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after journalists. My only problem here is the double standard. Donald Trump calls the press,
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the enemy of the people. And you, you see commercials as though, as though the journalists
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are little orphan children with Sarah McLachlan playing in the background. You know, you've got
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Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo in the arms of the angel, you know, like these, these poor little babes,
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where if you besmirch their high honor, you know, at CNN, that somehow you're threatening our
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constitution. But then this jerk gets asked a completely fair question about why inflation is
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going through the roof. Historic decades high inflation. So you stupid son of a, how dare you
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ask me about why you're doing this? But I guess, I guess one of the reasons why Joe Biden is so on
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edge right now, other than his manifest senility is that right now we may see war breakout in Ukraine.
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We might see a Russian invasion of Ukraine and we might be involved in that war. Joe Biden,
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according to reports, is considering sending several thousand US troops over to Ukraine. Joe Biden has
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ordered the families of embassy personnel in Ukraine to leave the country to return home. He's considering
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sending warships and aircraft. And then actually we found out from the Pentagon yesterday, it's not
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just going to be several thousand troops who could be deployed. The number is as high as 8,500.
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As you're all aware, the United States is deeply concerned about the current situation in Europe.
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We remain keenly focused on Russia's unusual military activities near the Ukrainian border,
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including in Belarus, and consulting extensively with our transatlantic allies and partners.
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The department continues to support diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the situation.
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Now, as the president has said, even as we continue to prioritize diplomacy and dialogue, we must also
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increase readiness. Secretary Austin has placed a range of units in the United States on a heightened
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preparedness to deploy, which increases our readiness to provide forces if NATO should activate the NRF or
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if other situations develop. All told, the number of forces that the secretary has placed on heightened
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alert comes up to about 8,500 personnel. In the event of NATO's activation of the NRF or a deteriorating
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security environment, the United States would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional brigade
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combat teams. So this is pretty serious. And I'm not sure that this is just a bluff from the Biden
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administration. This seems to be a little bit more serious than that. And the situation is rapidly
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deteriorating there. There seem to be two schools of thought on this. There seem to be only two opinions
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that you're allowed to have on the right when you look at Ukraine. Either you have to be a complete
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isolationist, non-interventionist, there is no reason ever to interfere in any country if we are not
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directly at existential risk. Pull all the troops home from everywhere in the world. Don't interfere
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anywhere. That's on one hand. And then on the other hand is the Bush era neocon never met a country
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that didn't want to bomb, intervene every single place in the world for the vague expansion of democracy
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and so that we can raise pride flags in Kandahar. Those are, according to our popular discourse,
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the only two views you're allowed to have. May I offer a third perspective here? This is my third
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radical perspective on Ukraine and foreign policy generally. Foreign policy is very complicated.
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That's my ambitious, shocking analysis. Do you care about Ukraine? Maybe you do. Probably you don't.
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Should we go to war with Russia over Ukraine? Well, what does war mean? Does that mean we're
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going to invade Moscow? Probably not. Does it mean a land war even in Ukraine? I don't know. Maybe.
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Does it mean sanctions and air support? I don't know. Possibly. What is at stake? What is the American
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interest at stake in Ukraine? I'm not so sure, but I do know that before we went to war in other
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countries within the past decade, we didn't really have a good sense of what our interests were.
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And then very often we made things worse. I'm thinking of Libya, for instance. Do you remember
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we had to go into Libya? Why? I don't know, because Hillary Clinton said we did. And it was very
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important to go into Libya. And then what happened? We got rid of Muammar Gaddafi because he's a bad,
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he was a bad guy. We got rid of Gaddafi. And then what happened? Things in Libya got worse. They
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didn't seem to get all that much better. What about Syria? We were told we had to go in and get rid of
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Bashar Assad in Syria. Why did we have to get rid of Bashar Assad? Well, because he's a bad guy. Okay,
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he's a bad guy. Who's the good guy who's going to take over? Show me the good guy. I don't see a lot
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of good guys. In fact, Bashar Assad, his many sins notwithstanding, actually did a fairly decent job of
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killing terrorists, at least some of the time. What's our interest? What do we really want to
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see in Syria? Do you remember, this is my favorite one. There was a meme going around the internet
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about 10 years ago. Kony 2012. Kony 2012. For those younger listeners out there, you won't remember
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this. This was the hottest. We all had to band together to stop a warlord in Africa named Joseph
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Kony because he did bad things, I guess. But no, and everyone got really riled up and we had to go and
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let's go send in the 101st Airborne and then what? I don't know. We don't even know. I don't even know
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what happened to Kony. Foreign policy is very, very complicated. Ukraine is one of the most conquered
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areas in the world. Ukraine has been conquered by Russia, by Tsarist Russia, by Soviet Russia,
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by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by the Ottoman Empire, by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Poland, also one of the most conquered territories in the history of the world, conquered
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Ukraine. Ukraine means borderland. It derives from the Slavic word for borderland.
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It's going to be conquered again and then someone else is going to conquer it and maybe it goes
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independent for a while. It's very complicated. And then furthermore, there is a very real critique
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of American adventurism that I think we need to keep in mind, which is we are not allowed to defend
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our own border. We must. It is an existential threat to America if we do not defend the current
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border of Ukraine, which has existed for about five minutes. But we are not allowed to defend the
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southern border of the United States. That, you just can't do it. It's not possible.
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The courts won't let us. The activists won't let us. The global elite won't let us. The big business
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interests won't let us. Can't do that. For whatever reason, we, the mightiest military power in the
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history of the world, can't secure the Rio Grande. But it is of dire importance that we fly over and
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send our ships over to Ukraine to prevent a potential Russian incursion to its traditional sphere of
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influence. You can't keep that up forever, folks. I am somewhat sympathetic to the argument that we
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don't want Russia to encroach on Ukraine, that it's not good for our interests to let Russia move further
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out. But empires cannot neglect their homeland to focus on far-flung holdings forever. You can't do that
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forever. If you do not have some internal cohesion, if you do not have some sense of the national
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interests at stake, if you do not have a common understanding of what a national interest even is,
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and certainly if you don't have a common set of values that you are allegedly sending abroad,
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then it's very, very difficult to project influence. We don't even know what that influence
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would be. And so the people who want to project American imperial strength around the world,
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okay, fine, that's all well and good. But you can't do it by completely neglecting the homeland
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forever. And that's why we're in a bind in Ukraine. It's not safe. It's not a very safe situation. When
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Both are available for pre-order now on Amazon or anywhere you buy books online. We'll be right
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back with a lot more. Speaking of the Russians, former House Speaker and former presidential candidate
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Newt Gingrich has a really great idea, if you ask me. And the idea is this. If Republicans retake the
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House of Representatives, then the members of the Democrat January 6th Committee could find themselves
00:26:34.700
getting subpoenaed. You're going to have a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in
00:26:40.080
the Senate. And all these people who've been so tough and so mean and so nasty are going to be delivered
00:26:45.180
subpoenas for every document, every conversation, every tweet, every email, because I think it's clear
00:26:53.020
that these are people who are literally just running over the law, pursuing innocent people,
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causing them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees for no justification.
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And it's basically a lynch mob. And unfortunately, the attorney general of the United States has joined
00:27:09.080
that lynch mob and is totally misusing the FBI. And I think when you have a Republican Congress,
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this is all going to come crashing down. And the wolves are going to find out that they're now
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sheep. And they're the ones who are, in fact, going to, I think, face a real risk of jail for
00:27:24.340
the kind of laws they're breaking. That's the spirit. Whenever you want a good pep talk,
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whenever you want some encouragement, Newt Gingrich is one of the guys to do it, because what Newt
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understands is that you've got to fight back. You cannot have unilateral disarmament.
00:27:39.520
I don't want to live in a country where we are regularly throwing our opponents into orange
00:27:45.620
jumpsuits. I think that's bad. I think that's really bad for civilization, bad for our country.
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But if we're living in a country where the left is doing that, we need to do it too.
00:27:58.700
It's the only way we're going to get rid of it. If we allow them to get away with this sort of stuff
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with impunity, then we're sunk. That, that is no way to fight. This is, this is what some of
00:28:09.600
the squish Republicans have suggested in the past. They say, well, we can't, we can't fight back
00:28:15.480
against what the left is doing. Because if we did that, we would basically just become the left,
00:28:19.380
you know? Like, like if the left, they especially do this with wielding political power. They'll say,
00:28:23.600
if the left, golly, if the left wields political power to do evil things, and then we come around
00:28:31.960
and wield political power to do good things, why, that would make us no different than the left.
00:28:39.280
I think it would make you pretty different, actually. I think it would make you the kind
00:28:42.460
of the opposite of the left, because evil and good are the opposite. Well, if the left uses their
00:28:48.200
political leverage to peddle falsehoods, and we then use it to peddle truths, we would be the same.
00:28:54.440
No, you would be different. You'd be the opposite, because truth and falsehood are the opposite,
00:28:58.640
actually. Because procedure is not all that there is. Substance is important in politics, too.
00:29:07.440
And what Newt is saying is he's saying, turn that January 6th commission right back on him.
00:29:11.160
It's a preposterous premise. It is a vindictive, if not illegal, highly legally dubious committee.
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It's entirely partisan, which is not in keeping with the traditions of our Congress. So just get
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rid of it. Get rid of it and go after them hard. I love that. No unilateral disarmament.
00:29:36.300
It's important in foreign policy. It's important in domestic policy, too.
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Got to keep up the heat. Great news from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has just agreed
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to hear a pair of cases that will challenge race-based affirmative action policies for
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college admissions, specifically at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The cases will
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most likely be argued next term. This is a really important case, because affirmative action
00:30:03.680
is manifestly illegal. Even the justices who upheld affirmative action the last time one of these
00:30:11.460
cases was brought to the court, even they admitted, it's not kosher. You got to get rid of it. We'll deal
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with it for now because we want to engage in some radical social engineering, but it has to be time
00:30:24.880
limited. That big case was Grutter v. Bollinger. And in that case, Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the
00:30:33.400
swing vote, who swung the case in favor of affirmative action against the rule of law, even though she was
00:30:39.320
a conservative appointee. She said, we are mindful, however, that a core purpose of the 14th amendment
00:30:44.060
was to do away with all governmentally imposed discrimination based on race. Accordingly, race-conscious
00:30:49.740
admissions policies must be limited in time. So hold on, period. I'm going to pause for a second.
00:30:54.500
She's acknowledging that the 14th amendment says no affirmative action, right? Because affirmative
00:30:59.960
action is discrimination based on race. And frankly, the only reason these cases are even making it up
00:31:05.600
to the court is because they not only discriminate against white people, but against Asian people too.
00:31:10.300
If they were just discriminating against white people, that is perfectly accepted by the culture,
00:31:14.660
that is actually encouraged by the culture, it's enshrined in law, and no one really says
00:31:19.360
boo about it. But because the laws also discriminate against Asians, which seems kind of weird,
00:31:26.060
this is now going up to the courts. And you remember the last time this happened,
00:31:32.460
Sandra Day O'Connor says, look, the 14th amendment says no affirmative action, but
00:31:35.720
therefore we're going to limit it in time. No, don't limit it in time. Stop it now. It's illegal.
00:31:40.960
So stop it. But no, we want it to go on a little while longer. This requirement of limiting it in time
00:31:46.700
reflects that racial classifications, however compelling their goals, are potentially so
00:31:50.340
dangerous that they may be employed no more broadly than the interest demands. Enshrining a
00:31:54.300
permanent justification for racial preferences would offend this fundamental equal protection
00:31:58.260
principle. We see no reason to exempt race-conscious admissions programs from the requirement that all
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governmental use of race must have a logical end point. The law school too concedes that all
00:32:08.000
race-conscious programs must have reasonable durational limits. Okay.
00:32:13.060
Whatever the bogus argument last time this came up 20 years ago,
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clearly we're past that time. Or we're right around that time. At the time Sandra Day O'Connor
00:32:25.420
said, I don't know, about 25 years probably. Why? I don't know. Because I'm plucking that out of
00:32:29.200
thin air. But that's why. About 25 years we've got to get rid of affirmative action. We're almost
00:32:32.620
there. We're almost at that time. It's time to do it. Now is not the time to go weak. You might think,
00:32:38.300
some of the squishes will think, look, we're trying to overturn Roe versus Wade. Maybe if the court
00:32:42.520
overturns Roe versus Wade, then maybe they can go a little weaker on affirmative action and that'll
00:32:46.800
keep everybody happy. Sort of like in the Supreme Court cases on the vaccine mandates. Maybe if we
00:32:52.880
stop the OSHA mandate, but we keep the healthcare mandate, maybe then everyone will be kind of happy.
00:33:00.000
Well, that I think would have the worst possible effect. Because what the court wants to seem like
00:33:05.580
it's doing is not playing politics. But when the court is making those kinds of arguments,
00:33:11.760
it's completely playing politics, right? It's simply saying, we want to make the Republicans
00:33:15.300
happy here and the Democrats happy here, which totally tarnishes the credibility of the court.
00:33:20.300
Follow the law. The law is relatively clear, as clear as it could be. Follow it. Even the people
00:33:27.920
who upheld this stuff say the law was pretty clear. And we need to make clear to the court,
00:33:33.640
which reads the newspapers, that this is what we expect. We expect the overturning of Roe versus
00:33:39.660
Wade, and we will not accept anything less. And we expect the ending of affirmative action,
00:33:44.620
which is manifestly illegal. Now, speaking of personnel decisions,
00:33:51.860
we're talking about affirmative action or modern broadcasting. Neil Young,
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Neil Young, aged Canadian hippie, well-known whiner of such songs as,
00:34:02.300
helpless, helpless, old man, take a look at my life. He's, you know, he's been around for a very
00:34:07.620
long time. Not quite as popular now as he once was. Looks crazier than ever. Neil Young is demanding
00:34:14.400
that Spotify make a choice. It's either him or Rogan. Because Neil Young believes that Joe Rogan is
00:34:23.060
spreading fake news about the vaccines. This is very, very dangerous. And so Neil Young says,
00:34:28.540
I'm going to have you take my music off. If you don't, you can hear him. It's not, it's sort of like
00:34:35.040
a, oh boy. I'm not, it's not quite, it's not my best Neil Young impression, but it's not that far
00:34:40.620
off. He says, I'll do this in my ordinary voice. I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake
00:34:46.820
information about vaccines, potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being
00:34:51.680
spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.
00:34:55.460
I want Spotify to know today that I want all my music off their platform. They have Rogan or Young,
00:35:02.180
not both. It's a really tough choice. Really tough choice for Spotify. Do you go with a whiny old hippie
00:35:10.600
who hasn't been particularly relevant since the seventies or the most popular broadcaster in the entire
00:35:15.740
world? Who do you pick? Who do you pick? Do you pick this angry guy with admittedly like seven or eight
00:35:23.960
hit songs? More, maybe more, maybe that's not fair. With a, you know, a dozen or so really popular songs
00:35:29.100
or Joe Rogan, the single most popular man with a microphone on planet earth right now.
00:35:36.080
Neil Young, I'm sure makes Spotify several hundred dollars a month and Joe Rogan brings them in
00:35:42.360
gazillions of gazillions of dollars a minute. I suspect they're going to go with Rogan. That's
00:35:48.100
what I would guess. Part of the reason they should go with Rogan is that Neil Young is just wrong on
00:35:54.860
the merits here. Joe Rogan has spread much, much, much less scientific misinformation about COVID
00:36:02.340
than has Dr. Fauci, then has Rochelle Walensky, then has Joe Biden. All of those people spread
00:36:12.140
misinformation about the masks, about the vaccines, about the violence of the virus,
00:36:20.720
about the risk of the virus to other people, about the transmissibility, about all of it.
00:36:25.520
And the way I know that they've spread misinformation is that they have held
00:36:29.360
contradictory sides of all of those issues. Don't wear the masks. They don't work. Do wear
00:36:35.420
the masks. You need to wear them. The vaccines stop infection and transmission. The vaccines don't
00:36:40.000
stop infection and transmission. The vaccines are totally safe. The vaccines actually have some
00:36:46.040
side effects and we're going to pause some of the vaccines sometimes. The cloth masks do work,
00:36:51.260
right? They kept that one up from the first. But actually the cloth masks don't really do very much.
00:36:55.120
They're nothing but a facial decoration. That's what the CNN medical analysts said. On and on and on and
00:36:59.220
on and on. Joe Rogan, much more consistent, much less misinformation than all of that.
00:37:05.240
And the procedure is preposterous for him to say it's him or me. An important lesson in politics
00:37:12.520
is know your leverage. Know your leverage, buddy. Ain't nobody going to be missing Neil Young. I
00:37:16.920
actually kind of like Neil Young songs. Okay, I guess I won't listen to them now. Okay, it's not a huge
00:37:23.500
loss. Plus I can listen to Clapton and Van Morrison who have a decent head on their shoulders.
00:37:27.860
Speaking of weird hippie stuff, the ruling class really, really wants us to eat bugs.
00:37:36.840
They really want it. This has become a meme. People will say, I will not live in the pod.
00:37:43.280
I will not eat the bugs. I will not consume. And the ruling class keeps trying to force us to do it.
00:37:48.820
They don't want us to live in nice big houses. They don't want us to go to work and to our community
00:37:54.440
and to our church and to stores. They want us to live in a tiny little pod in a metropolitan area.
00:37:58.740
And they want us to eat bugs. From Bloomberg. Why bugs must have a bigger part of the human food
00:38:07.780
chain. They're fine for snacking, but insect protein, I like how they just assume that part.
00:38:13.380
Yeah, sure. They're fine for snacking, but we need to do more of that. Hold on. I'm a little
00:38:16.920
skeptical of the first premise. They write, quote, humans have been consuming edible insects
00:38:24.040
from crickets and grasshoppers to fire ants and termites since before the dawn of civilization.
00:38:29.800
About 80% of the world's population throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America continues to eat
00:38:35.120
bugs today. That's true. I think that's true. But I think they're hiding the ball a little bit.
00:38:45.160
Because I think the operative word here is before. They're saying people ate bugs
00:38:50.840
bugs before civilization. That's true. And then we got civilization. And civilization's
00:38:58.100
pretty great, guys. I love civilization. Now, what they're saying, though, is even after the
00:39:06.960
dawn of civilization in the civilized world, some places continued to eat bugs, such as in Asia
00:39:12.600
and Africa and Latin America. First of all, this is painting with a very, very broad brush.
00:39:17.460
There are lots of people who are wealthy, who have been civilized, who have interactions,
00:39:26.900
say, with the West, who are in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, who don't eat bugs. But it's true.
00:39:31.440
There are some very, very poor people, some tribal people. There are many tribal people,
00:39:36.780
actually, in all of those places who still eat bugs and who live in a very uncivilized way.
00:39:41.580
That's bad. We shouldn't want to do that. I don't want to live like a peasant in the middle of some
00:39:52.040
jungle in Vietnam. I want to live like a civilized person with the cultural inheritance that our
00:39:57.680
forebears gave us, this beautiful thing that we are squandering. But it's not, look, I'm going to
00:40:03.240
continue to do that. I'm not going to eat the bugs. The bugs are gross. And guess what? The people
00:40:07.760
pushing this? Mike Bloomberg, he ain't going to eat the bugs. Bill Gates, he ain't going to eat the
00:40:12.840
bugs. All the Hollywood celebrities, all the global political elites, none of them are going to eat
00:40:18.120
the bugs. They don't want to, because bugs are gross. They're going to eat filet mignon. They're
00:40:21.700
going to eat caviar. They're going to eat foie gras. And you, you dirty, rotten peasants, you're going to
00:40:27.100
eat the bugs. And you're going to live in your pod. And you're not going to own anything. And you're
00:40:32.440
going to like it, by golly. You see this kind of logic, especially with climate change. No,
00:40:41.760
now it's called climate crisis. Before that climate catastrophe, before that climate change,
00:40:47.040
before that global warming, before that global cooling. Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the most vociferous
00:40:55.600
global warming alarmists in the world. He just made that, that alarmist movie about global warming.
00:41:02.760
called Don't Look Up. It was ostensibly about a meteor, but it was really about global warming as
00:41:07.660
the filmmaker and the whole cast admit. Leonardo DiCaprio, speaking about the movie, he said,
00:41:12.920
I've had two great passions in my life. That has been acting and the protection of the natural world
00:41:17.660
and getting the message out about the climate crisis. Okay. He's, he's on crisis. That's the
00:41:21.820
current one. I've had a foundation for 20 years. I got to go to Glasgow. I got to see world leaders
00:41:28.600
make some pretty substantial commitments, much like this movie. There is a ticking clock.
00:41:33.560
I think there's a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private
00:41:37.740
sector, the governments are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a
00:41:41.460
nine year window. Set your clocks. Nine years. That's what he's saying. Now, I guess it was only
00:41:50.140
about three or four years ago that AOC claimed that we had 12 years. So we're rough. Maybe they're
00:41:55.360
trying to pick up an extra year there, but we're basically on track. Okay. The nine years it's
00:41:59.140
over. In nine years, set your clocks. That's what 20, 2031. I don't want to hear about it anymore
00:42:06.560
because then it's over. There's nothing to do. Nine years. That's all you get. You can run your
00:42:12.900
mouth for nine more years and whine and complain and try to manipulate the public and take all their
00:42:19.660
rights and take all their property and reorder their way of, you can try it for nine more years,
00:42:23.580
but then I don't want to hear it because you just promised me it's over in nine years. So good. It's
00:42:27.880
over. Now, of course it won't be over. They've, since at least the seventies, really end of the
00:42:34.400
world predictions have been going on since the dawn of time. But the modern environmentalist end of the
00:42:39.800
world predictions have been going on for, I don't know what, about 150 years or so. And then the
00:42:45.140
modern version of it, overpopulation, global warming, the ozone, that's been going on for about
00:42:51.100
60, 70 years. And they, every time they say, we've only got 10 more years, we've only got 10 more
00:42:56.160
years. In the 19, in early 1970s, they said, we've only got 10 more years before there are inevitably
00:43:00.520
global famines because of overpopulation. Didn't happen. The opposite happened. The global population
00:43:05.620
doubled. Malnutrition hit an all time low, but that's it. Thankfully, we don't really hear too much
00:43:11.660
about overpopulation anymore. They're trying to bring it back with the weird bug stuff, but that has,
00:43:16.200
that also has more to do with the weather and the climate and the crisis and whatever.
00:43:21.860
My question for Leonardo DiCaprio is, you got to Glasgow, you got to go see these global leaders
00:43:27.440
make the commitments. How'd you get there? How'd you get to Glasgow? Did you, did you take a ship?
00:43:36.960
Did you, did you canoe? Did you, did you fly commercial even? No, you didn't. You flew a private jet.
00:43:44.800
Because you fly private jets everywhere. Because you consume a whole lot of electricity. We're now
00:43:49.600
told that this is a bad argument. No, you can't, come on, stop pointing that out. It doesn't matter.
00:43:54.680
It's like, it's like saying you're not racist because you have a black friend. Yeah, that's a
00:43:59.120
good argument too, buddy. Your behavior actually does tell you a lot more about what you actually
00:44:03.080
think than some stupid preaching that you give to news magazines or on television.
00:44:10.700
Leonardo DiCaprio does not live as though the world is going to end from global warming.
00:44:14.600
Sorry, climate crisis in nine years. He's not behaving that way because he doesn't really
00:44:19.840
believe it. He wants you to live that way, but he doesn't want to live that way himself.
00:44:24.640
The other lesson we got to take from them, the left is always good at making everything seem
00:44:28.840
super urgent. Everything always seems like a crisis and the right doesn't do that. We're pretty calm.
00:44:33.720
Even with abortion where a million babies a year are being killed almost, we just kind of take it.
00:44:37.880
We're peaceful about it. We're very, we're very calm. We're very, the left doesn't do that.
00:44:42.880
They're very angry. They get very, they get in your face. They say the whole world is going to end.
00:44:49.880
And actually sometimes the left is not peaceful. Sometimes the left does not follow the law. I
00:44:53.960
think we certainly should be peaceful. We certainly should follow the law, but maybe let's turn up
00:44:58.240
the urgency a little bit. Maybe let's learn a little bit from their rhetoric.
00:45:02.900
Now, speaking of adopting the left's agenda, really, really sad news from George Will.
00:45:10.620
George Will is a formerly conservative columnist. He was kind of the conservative columnist
00:45:16.520
for decades. And then he became more of a libertarian in recent years. And now he looks,
00:45:23.780
he looks somewhat liberal on a lot of issues. I think he may have voted for Biden.
00:45:27.860
Could be right. Don't, don't quote me. He certainly didn't vote for Trump. He hates Trump,
00:45:30.520
left the GOP over Trump. Well, now he's come out and endorsed assisted suicide.
00:45:38.860
Assisted suicide. George Will writes, the Economist magazine, true to its classical liberal
00:45:45.180
tradition, recently praised the welcome spread of assisted dying for advancing a basic freedom
00:45:50.200
that is now legal in one form or another in a dozen countries. And Will acknowledges there's a
00:45:56.000
slippery slope here. And there are a lot of risks that are coming around with this, such as, I don't
00:46:00.680
know, pressuring your old, older family members to just go on and kill themselves and stop being a
00:46:04.380
burden to you. Those sorts of things. Making people feel like they're old and just useless and
00:46:09.300
want to just kill themselves because they're, they're no longer adding to the GDP. And, and George
00:46:15.460
Will says life is lived on a slippery slope. Taxation can become confiscation. Police can become
00:46:20.520
instruments of tyranny. Laws can metastasize suffocatingly. However, taxation, police, and
00:46:26.200
laws are indispensable. The challenge is to minimize dangers that cannot be entirely eliminated
00:46:30.600
from society. Okay. That's fair enough. I grant that's true. All those examples he gives can become,
00:46:37.040
they are on a slippery slope. They can become very terrible, but they're indispensable of society.
00:46:41.160
But this is a really stupid argument because assisted suicide is not indispensable to society.
00:46:47.580
It's always wrong. In the Netherlands, just in recent years, an old woman was held down and
00:46:53.080
killed against her will because she had, he had, she had assented to it at one point. And then in
00:46:58.080
the moment when they were about to kill her, she pushed back, she was fighting the family and the
00:47:01.300
doctors held her down and they killed her. And then also in the Netherlands, a 29 year old woman did not
00:47:05.720
suffer from some terminal cancer, some illness that was going to kill her in six months. She just had
00:47:09.960
anxiety. She just had depression, some eating disorders. And do you know what happened? They let her kill
00:47:14.840
herself. 29 years old. In 2014, Belgium became the first country to authorize children to request
00:47:22.320
assisted suicide if they suffer a terminal disease or understand the consequences of the act.
00:47:27.560
Children, assisted suicide. Children have a moody day. They have, they go through some psychological
00:47:33.960
trouble. They kill themselves at basically any age. This is not conservative. This leads to horrible
00:47:41.180
abuses. This is not going to make a good flourishing country. If you want a flourishing
00:47:49.000
country, if you want to be able to project strength abroad, if you want to be able to have strength at
00:47:52.320
home, the basic thing is you need to not kill yourself. Okay. You need to live. You need to
00:47:57.440
order your society toward flourishing. And at the most basic level, don't kill yourself. And when even the
00:48:02.660
nominal conservatives are pushing this stuff, you know, we're in a really,
00:48:06.360
really bad spot. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:48:16.180
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Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Joe Biden calls Peter Ducey a stupid son of a b****, and the same
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